Three generations of post-war study of Judaism in Germany

German academic anti-Judaism—theological contempt for the religion set forth out of Scripture by the Rabbinic sages of antiquity—begins with Martin Luther and survives the Third Reich. That is shown by the nihilistic representation of Rabbinic Judaism in post World-War II German scholarship, which denies to Judaism a determinate textual corpus, a synchronic venue, a diachronic context. Three generations—Arnold M. Goldberg, his disciple, Peter Schaefer, and Schaefer's disciples, Alberdina Houtman and Hans-Juergen Becker—have systematically denied to Judaism the possibility of historical study as a culture in dialogue with a particular social order. The outcome of the German academic tradition is a religion without determinate texts, religious texts out of all context—and texts without contents: the nullification of Judaism as a fact of history and culture

Archaeology · Contempt · Context (archaeology) · German · Jewish literature · Jewish studies · Judaism · Order (exchange) · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies

• Mishnah and Tosefta

  Joshua Schwartz•Journal of Jewish Studies•1998

  Incluir item

• Die grossen rabbinischen Sammelwerke Palaestinas. Zur literarischen Genese von Talmud Yerushalmi und Midrash Bereshit Rabba

  Jacob Neusner•Journal of Jewish Studies•2001

  Incluir item

• Research into Rabbinic Literature

  Peter Schafer•Journal of Jewish Studies•1986

  Incluir item